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Thursday, 27 September 2018

Motorola has launched One Power Android One smartphones in India. It is available in Black colour and is priced at Rs. 15,999. The smartphone will be available via online shopping partner Flipkart starting October 5.

Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Motorola has launched Moto G6 Plus smartphone in India. It is available in Deep Indigo color, is priced at Rs. 22499. The smartphone will be exclusively available via online shopping partner Amazon as well as Moto Hub stores offline.

The smartphone comes with Launch offers (only available offline) for Paytm Mall customers include Rs. 3,000 cashback for purchases made using the app. Jio users will get cashback of Rs. 4,450 on recharges of Rs. 198 and Rs. 299 (instant cashback Rs. 2,200, Cleartrip cashback vouchers worth Rs. 1,250, and Ajio.com discount worth Rs. 1,000). Buyers will also get no-cost EMIs from Bajaj FinServ.

Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Xiaomi’s sub-brand Poco has launched Poco F1 smartphone in India. The Xiaomi Poco F1 price in India is Rs. 20,999 for the variant with 6GB RAM and 64GB internal storage. Its 6GB RAM and 128GB internal storage model will cost Rs. 23,999 in India. Lastly, the 8GB RAM and 256GB built-in storage model, priced at Rs. 28,999. As for the Armoured Edition model with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, buyers will have to shell out Rs. 29,999.

The smartphone comes with launch offers. Purchases made using HDFC Bank credit and debit cards, as well as EMIs, will get a flat Rs. 1,000 discount on the first sale. Jio customers will get up to 6TB of additional data and cashback worth Rs. 8,000 from Jio. The handset will come with a soft case in the box. The smartphone will be available via Flipkart as well as Mi.com and the first sale will be held on August 29 at 12pm IST.

Thursday, 9 August 2018

Xiaomi has launched Mi A2, its latest Android One smartphone in India. It is available in Lake Blue, Gold, Rose Gold and Black colors and is priced at Rs. 16,999 for the 4GB RAM with 64GB RAM version, and the 6GB RAM with 128GB storage version will be available soon. the smartphone will be exclusively available via online shopping partner Amazon. The smartphone will be available for pre-order from August 9th. It comes with Rs. 2200 instant cashback (in the form of vouchers) and 4.5TB additional data for Jio users.

Tuesday, 31 July 2018

WhatsApp group voice and video calls are finally live. Back in May, WhatsApp said that it will roll out group calling feature in coming months. Today it has announced that it has started rolling out the group calls for voice and video for everyone starting today.

You can make a group call with up to four people total - anytime and anywhere. Just start a one-on-one voice or video call and tap the new "add participant" button in the top right corner to add more contacts to the call.

Group calls are always end-to-end encrypted, and we've designed calling to work reliably around the world in different network conditions. The feature is currently rolling out on the iPhone and Android versions of our app, it should be available for everyone over the next few days.

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Xiaomi-backed wearable brand Huami launched Amazfit Bip and Amazfit Stratos smartwatches in India. The Amazfit Bip comes in four colour variants - Cinnabar Red, Kokoda Green, Onyx Black, and White Cloud. The Amazfit Stratos is available in only a single Black colour option. Amazfit Bip is available at Rs. 5,499 and the Amazfit Stratos is priced at Rs. 15,999. The Amazfit Bip and Amazfit Stratos are already available on Flipkart.

Friday, 20 July 2018

WhatsApp said Thursday it is planning to limit message forwarding in India, where two dozen people have been killed this year in violent mobs fueled by rumours spreading on the global messaging platform, and is instituting a new global limit on forwards around the world.

The company said in a blog post-Thursday evening in the United States that it is launching a test to limit forwarding on WhatsApp in India, where people forward more messages and videos than anywhere else in the world. The controls include a plan to limit the number of chats that users can send forward to five in India and remove the "quick forward" button next to media messages.

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For the global version of the application, the company will limit the number of forwards to 20 other groups. The move marks a major change to the architecture of an application increasingly used for political communication by 1.5 billion people across the world in response to public pressure and a departure for a service that has long taken a more hands-off approach.

"We believe that these changes - which we'll continue to evaluate - will help keep WhatsApp the way it was designed to be: a private messaging app," WhatsApp's spokesman Carl Woog wrote.

Earlier Thursday, India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had warned WhatsApp to come up with more effective solutions to stop mob violence - or face legal action.

The government said in a statement that the general sentiment in the country is that "much more needs to be done by WhatsApp."

"When rumours and fake news get propagated by mischief mongers, the medium used for such propagation cannot evade responsibility and accountability," the government wrote. "If they remain, mute spectators, they are liable to be treated as abettors and thereafter face consequent legal action."

Other countries around the world have also grappled with the spread of fake news on the platform - including during a recent yellow fever epidemic in Brazil - but in India, the fake news problem is particularly pernicious because so many digitally naive users are coming online for the first time. Many of the mobs attacked people they thought were child kidnappers because of rumours that had spread on WhatsApp.

Officials from the Menlo Park, California-based company are in India this week to meet with digital literacy organisations and civil society leaders to discuss the spate of violence that has prompted calls for it to do more to control the spread of viral content on the app, used by 225 million people in India, according to the Indian government.

The company, owned by Facebook, said this week that it had studied the way that WhatsApp was used by a particular Indian political party - which it did not name - in a recent state election in Karnataka, saying that campaign operatives formed dozens of WhatsApp groups, added telephone numbers and used those groups to send thousands of politically oriented spam messages. Spokesmen for the two major national political parties - the governing Bharatiya Janata Party and the main opposition Indian National Congress - denied manipulating the app.

WhatsApp said that use of the app in this ways violates its terms of service - as well as why the app was built in the first place.

"We built WhatsApp as a private messaging app - a simple, secure and reliable way to communicate with friends and family. And as we've added new features, we've been careful to try and keep that feeling of intimacy which people say they love," Woog wrote.